If you own a dog that tends to salivate and get excited when you shake a box of dog biscuits, you may have noticed that your dog also drools when you shake a bag of cat food. If so, this is an example of stimulus generalization.

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Stimulus generalization refers to the tendency for a response learned to one stimulus to be elicited by a similar stimulus. In this case, the dog has generalized the response of salivating and getting excited from the sound of shaking a box of dog biscuits to the sound of shaking a bag of cat food.

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